Bloods associate tells of sex, lies and betrayal

MANHATTAN — Jamie Kinsley did a little of everything for members of the Bloods gang in the City of Newburgh.

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By DOYLE MURPHY

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By DOYLE MURPHY

Posted Feb. 15, 2013 at 2:00 AM

By DOYLE MURPHY
Posted Feb. 15, 2013 at 2:00 AM

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MANHATTAN — Jamie Kinsley did a little of everything for members of the Bloods gang in the City of Newburgh.

The 40-year-old claims she hid drugs in her bra for some, drove others to pick up guns and relayed letters between members who were locked up. When it came to Anthony "Double O" Boykin, allegedly the highest-ranking Blood in Newburgh, Kinsley said it was intimate.

"Just a sexual relationship," she said Thursday in federal court.

Kinsley is now a government witness in the case against Boykin and a co-defendant, Justin "Justo" Simmons. The men face charges that include racketeering, narcotics conspiracy and murder. Kinsley testified about the many ways she helped gang members. Not a member herself, she described a role that seemed to fall somewhere between team mom and groupie. She borrowed a bit of Bloods lingo to explain.

"I was a '550' — I was neutral," she said.

Federal authorities didn't see it that way, indicting her in 2010 as part of the wide-ranging racketeering case that ultimately named more than 70 defendants who were members or associates of the Bloods. She has pleaded guilty to a long list of crimes as part of a cooperation agreement that she hopes will allow her to avoid a federal prison term of 45 years to life.

Aside from serving as a periodic sexual partner, Kinsley said she drove Boykin through Newburgh to commit robberies. She claimed he dressed for those occasions in all black: hoodie, gloves, jeans and backpack. It was the same outfit a previous witness in the case had said a gunman wore in March 2009 during the slaying of Lamont "City" Young in an illegal pool hall.

Kinsley said she was in the hospital the night Young was killed, but she testified she later helped another defendant, her close friend Danielle Williams, dump Marco "Sparks" Boykin's clothes in a dumpster behind Pizza Hut in the Town of Newburgh. Kinsley said she originally thought Marco Boykin, not his brother, had killed Young. She briefly hid his gun in a shed behind her home.

Defense attorney Lisa Scolari questioned Kinsley about problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. She noted Kinsley often brought her grade school-age son to hang out with her on Lander Street and once helped Williams set up Williams' sister to be robbed. The sister was dying of cancer at the time, and the robbers put guns to her head and the head of her child.

"So you and Danielle set up this woman who is dying of cancer?" Scolari asked.

Kinsley said it was true. She later set up Williams too. Federal agents put a recorder in her phone so they could listen to conversations between the two old friends.